changing sims3packs to packages
Hello and I apologize in advance is this is a dumb question and I'm missing something obvious. Backstory - When I got back into TS3 early last year I downloaded a lot of cc and didn't pay attention...
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If you're using s3pack extractor on s3packs like lots and worlds that contain custom content you will end up with a load of different packages. I'm afraid I can't tell you exactly what would happen on the merging of said files all together, because I've never done it, but I can only think that with worlds especially, that would be inadvisable.
I check all s3packs with Custard and remove all the custom content before I extract my sims3packs with the extractor tool. If you do that, you should end up with only one file.
Worlds can be installed without the launcher, but they need to be in .world format, which is why merging a bunch of loose files probably wouldn't work.
World files go into your main TS3 installed folder in Program files, not into Documents. The default path is usually C:/ProgramFiles (x86) / Electronic Arts / The Sims 3 / Game Data / Shared / NonPackaged / Worlds , though you can replace the drive letter with wherever you have the game installed.
For worlds, if you want to tell the packages apart, the world file is usually the largest one, but again, it would need to have the file extension renamed to .world before it becomes usable. If you're using Win 10, to rename it, you simply right click the file and choose rename. The actual title of the world will be highlighted blue like I've shown in the image below, but you can just click your cursor over to the file extension and rename that.
https://i.imgur.com/ZAHvfA2.jpg
I know that you can extract store packs to packages but it requires some extra steps. I can't tell you how sorry, because I install those through the launcher. There have been reports in the past of things like counters not cornering properly and not snapping together when extracted to packages, so I've avoided doing it just in case that is true.
My launcher used to crash sometimes too when scrolling through it, probably due to all the store things installed, and I found that it was often caused by my scrolling far too fast, so whenever I needed to use it, I always forced myself to scroll very slowly, despite it being terribly tedious to do. It didn't crash much after that. Though if you have a huge array of extra CC that might not actually help.
I check all s3packs with Custard and remove all the custom content before I extract my sims3packs with the extractor tool. If you do that, you should end up with only one file.
Worlds can be installed without the launcher, but they need to be in .world format, which is why merging a bunch of loose files probably wouldn't work.
World files go into your main TS3 installed folder in Program files, not into Documents. The default path is usually C:/ProgramFiles (x86) / Electronic Arts / The Sims 3 / Game Data / Shared / NonPackaged / Worlds , though you can replace the drive letter with wherever you have the game installed.
For worlds, if you want to tell the packages apart, the world file is usually the largest one, but again, it would need to have the file extension renamed to .world before it becomes usable. If you're using Win 10, to rename it, you simply right click the file and choose rename. The actual title of the world will be highlighted blue like I've shown in the image below, but you can just click your cursor over to the file extension and rename that.
https://i.imgur.com/ZAHvfA2.jpg
I know that you can extract store packs to packages but it requires some extra steps. I can't tell you how sorry, because I install those through the launcher. There have been reports in the past of things like counters not cornering properly and not snapping together when extracted to packages, so I've avoided doing it just in case that is true.
My launcher used to crash sometimes too when scrolling through it, probably due to all the store things installed, and I found that it was often caused by my scrolling far too fast, so whenever I needed to use it, I always forced myself to scroll very slowly, despite it being terribly tedious to do. It didn't crash much after that. Though if you have a huge array of extra CC that might not actually help.
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